“It was like nothing I’ve ever seen anywhere on our planet,” says McKenzie, whose photographs of East African soda lakes and their avian denizens were finalists in the 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. He let out a whoop and leaned out into the wind with his camera lens trained on the birds below. With hurricane-force winds rushing past, the sun baking the plane’s interior, and sulfurous fumes rising off the blood-red Lake Natron that stretched beneath him, McKenzie spotted a massive group of flamingos. Only a loose seatbelt around the photographer’s waist kept him tethered inside the tiny plane that seemed to have had its entire right side removed for easier access. Paul McKenzie peered down from 500 meters above the surreal string of soda lakes that punctuate the landscape along the border between Tanzania and Kenya.
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